First mate's log:
June 21, 1967
The first day of summer, not that seasons matter much on the island, but we can't celebrate anyway, because Mrs. Howell has been kidnapped! The kidnapper or kidnappers left a ransom note, so the Professor and I have to take $10,000 to a hollow log on the north side of the island. I'm pretty sure it's not the headhunters because I don't think they write English, but I have no idea who it is.
Carol Martin's diary:
June 22, 1967
I've moved the girls and myself into a cave! It was bad enough having Dr. Balinkoff and headhunters last month, not to mention all the other dangerous visitors over the years, but now there's a kidnapper on the island! Yes, he's been captured, after kidnapping the four other women, one by one, but he's been released and I have to protect myself and my family.
Norbert Wiley's boat washed ashore on the island, and he claims that he was trying to leave civilization behind because he has a compulsion to kidnap. Then he saw that the island was inhabited, including by a millionaire, and he started abducting people. We didn't know who was doing it of course, and when he took Alice, I was sure I'd be next, or one of my daughters.
The men managed to capture him but Ginger thinks he can be reformed, so she psychoanalyzed him. I tried to explain to her that it's not a compulsion like smoking cigarettes or chewing gum, but she wouldn't listen. The Professor also has his doubts, but he's hoping that Wiley's boat is salvageable. Mike thinks we should have a trial and then apply punishment, but I don't think that's going to happen.
Anyway, I feel safer in a cave for now. School is out for the summer, and I'm presenting it to my girls as a little vacation. My hope is, like all the other island visitors, he'll soon leave, and I don't at all mind being left behind this time.
June 23, 1967
Well, it turned out that the kidnapper was a guy named Norbert Wiley and we captured and tried to reform him but he stole a bunch of jewelry and money, then escaped on his boat. I'm going to go to my usual cave to go bring the Martins back to camp because Mrs. Martin was smart enough to protect herself and her little girls when we listened to Ginger and let Wiley out of the cage we put him in.
June 26, 1967
We're back in our hut. Wiley turned out to be a thief as well as a kidnapper and he pickpocketed everyone except the Bradys, who boycotted the party that the others foolishly threw for Wiley. He left in his boat, which Gilligan and the Professor had repaired.
It's the third anniversary of our arrival on the island. So much has happened in that time and it's a wonder we've survived. And yet, when things are going well, I remember that this is an island paradise and I'm lucky to be here, alive and with my girls. My fellow castaways are good, honest people, perhaps too trusting, but I certainly could've been shipwrecked with a far worse bunch.
July 5, 1967
We had a fun Fourth of July celebration yesterday, although we still can't do fireworks of course. But Mr. and Mrs. Howell wore their George and Martha Washington wigs and costumes and he gave a speech, and then we had a party that was much better than the one that was for Norbert Wiley.
July 7, 1967
Even though Norbert Wiley is gone, the other women have disappeared! The Professor thinks that natives have arrived on the island, looking for wives. Mike joked later, "Tell 'em you're going steady with me, Carol," but I know he is worried about my safety, since he's started sleeping in front of my hut door. With Alice gone, the boys are staying with the sailors. In some ways, this is worse than when Norbert Wiley was here, because he was leaving ransom notes, but we don't know who is doing this, or why.
July 8, 1967
It turns out that I'm a worse criminal than Norbert Wiley, and I didn't even know it! All the women have disappeared, except Mrs. Martin, who Mr. Brady is protecting. The thing is, there are no ransom notes this time. And at first the Professor said maybe natives came to the island looking for wives, even though Mrs. Howell is already married, but then the Professor said that maybe one of the men snapped and did away with the women without remembering it, like in the movie (and I guess book) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The thing is, I was alone with all of the women at some point before they vanished, and I think I didn't just kidnap them but I killed them! I just blocked it out but I do feel guilty about it.
And I just woke up from a terrible dream where I was Jekyll & Hyde, and I was on trial, like Mr. Brady wanted us to put Wiley on trial, but it was in England years and years ago, so Mrs. Howell was Mary Poppins and Mary Ann was a poor cockney flower girl, and they were my only friends. The kids were Oliver Twist and a bunch of other orphans that I'd tried to attack when Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Watson (the Professor and Skipper, like in my vampire dream) caught me. Mr. Brady was the prosecutor and Mr. Howell was the judge, and Ginger as the Woman in Red was flirting with both of them. Alice was Queen Victoria and she wasn't amused, while Mrs. Brady was Carrie Nation, who objected to alcohol and the potion I drank that turned me into Mr. Hyde, so she came after me with a hatchet.
I'm going to have to hide myself in the jungle, so I don't kill anyone else, especially with the Brady boys temporarily staying in my hut while Alice is gone and Mr. Brady is sleeping in front of the Martin hut.
July 9, 1967
It turned out that the other women, and later the Skipper and the Professor, fell into a pit with a trap door, perhaps set up by the Japanese sailor or some other former resident of the island. Gilligan heard their voices and at first thought they were the ghosts of his victims, because he somehow got it into his head that he was an amnesiac murderer! Anyway, everyone is safely back at camp and Mike no longer has to protect me and my girls, but it was nice to know he was there.